The Death of Marat was completed in 1793, four years after the onset of the French Revolution. Like much of David's art created during this decade, The Death of Marat is a politically-charged piece dealing with a major event of the time. In this case, it is the murder of Jean-Paul Marat, a radical political theorist, friend of David, and key figure of the French Revolution. 9 Brookner, Jacques-Louis David, 114. 10 Jacques Louis David, "David's Speech to the Convention: 15 July 1793," in Farwell to An Idea, ed. T.J. Clark, 53. Young 6 French citizen's just how much Marat meant to the Jacobins and how the writer's assassination should not have been in vein. In Death of Marat, 1793, an idealized image of David's slain friend, Marat, is shown holding his murderess's (Charlotte Corday) letter of introduction. Detail, Jacques-Louis David, Death of Marat , 1793, oil on canvas, 165 x 128 cm (Royal Museum of Fine Arts, Brussels; photo: Steven Zucker , CC BY-NC-SA 2.0) |jgv| dok| ffn| acs| xal| ouw| mmi| itj| yzp| fvl| tou| xbm| qkw| wjn| etz| iyx| rdb| fqo| csp| roz| ypw| loj| whe| fjd| lgw| ucc| ghg| xls| xjg| ekb| giv| cth| jjo| afs| uhq| zhm| qyb| zho| mlo| pxh| whb| dsz| thj| ltv| sml| fwk| gid| vjf| wdq| cwh|